The Black Hawk War Including a Review of Black Hawk's LifeStevens, Frank Everett
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The Black Hawk War Including a Review of Black Hawk's Life
Stevens, Frank Everett
Black Hawk War, 1832; Black Hawk, Sauk chief, 1767-1838
Article III. In consideration of the great extent of the foregoing
cession, the United States stipulate and agree to pay to the said
confederated tribes annually, for thirty successive years, the
first payment to be made in September of the next year, the sum of
twenty thousand dollars in specie.
Article IV. It is further agreed that the United States shall
establish and maintain within the limits, and for the use and
benefit of the Sacs and Foxes, for the period of thirty years, one
additional black and gunsmith shop, with the necessary tools, iron
and steel; and finally make a yearly allowance for the same
period, to the said tribes, of forty kegs of tobacco and forty
barrels of salt, to be delivered at the mouth of the Ioway River.
Article V. The United States, at the earnest request of the said
confederated tribes, further agree to pay to Farnham and
Davenport, Indian traders at Rock Island, the sum of forty
thousand dollars without interest, which sum will be in full
satisfaction of the claims of the said traders against the said
tribes, and by the latter was, on the tenth day of July, one
thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, acknowledged to be justly
due for articles of necessity, furnished, in the course of the
seven preceding years, in an instrument of writing of said date,
duly signed by the Chiefs and Headmen of said tribes, and
certified by the late Felix St. Vrain, United States agent, and
Antoine LeClaire, United States interpreter, both for the said
tribes.
Article VI. At the special request of the said confederated
tribes, the United States agree to grant, by patent in fee simple,
to Antoine LeClaire, Interpreter, a part Indian, one section of
land opposite Rock Island, and one section at the head of the
first rapids above said island, within the country herein ceded by
the Sacs and Foxes.
Article VII. Trusting to the good faith of the neutral bands of
Sacs and Foxes, the United States have already delivered up to
those bands the great mass of prisoners made in the course of the
war by the United States, and promise to use their influence to
procure the delivery of other Sacs and Foxes, who may still be
prisoners in the hands of a band of Sioux Indians, the friends of
the United States; but the following named prisoners of war, now
in confinement, who were Chiefs and Headmen, shall be held as
hostages for the future good conduct of the late hostile bands,
during the pleasure of the President of the United States, viz.:
Muk-ka-ta-mish-a-ka-kaik (or Black Hawk) and his two sons;
Wau-ba-kee-shik (the Prophet), his brother and two sons; Na-pope,
We-sheet Ioway, Pa-ma-ho, and Cha-kee-pa-shi-pa-ho (the Little
Stabbing Chief).
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